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HTML
<span class="extended">I'm extended</span>
<span>I'm not extended</span>
JavaScript
function test() {
this.style.fontWeight = "bold";
}
window.onload = function(){
var elements = document.getElementsByClassName('extended');
for (var i = 0; i< elements.length;i++){
elements[i].test = test;
}
var spans = document.getElementsByTagName("span");
alert("span[0].test: " + typeof spans[0].test
+"\nspan[1].test: " + typeof spans[1].test);
spans[0].test();
};